Now That The Recession Is Over...

Alright, it's official. Don't
wait around for the NBER to declare the recession done.
Gawker has gone and declared it finished. The blog asked
contributors to say how they're partying and enjoying life now
that the pain is all over and we're back to normal.

...if the Great Recession does hightail it this year, I'll miss
it. There's been something comforting about watching everything
we've been taught to value liquefy into a river of shit. Plus
when else will we get to see so many colossal hypocrites stripped
down so publicly, like a daily Albee climax. The haute monde, the
scions of capitalism — they were all exposed as liars or morons
(or both), while everyone else was a deluded casualty. We got to
watch, read, and blog while the system collapsed under its own
hubris, flushing the white collars out of Midtown and Wall Street
like a burst dam. There was nowhere to go but down. Sure took the
pressure off.

But we really liked this comment from TV personality
Abiola Abrams (pictured):

Now that I've racked up $100G in student loans and declared
bankruptcy I can be introspective enough to say that wealth and
abundance are states of mind.